Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958, is based on his experiences as a black social worker in a racist society
Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant - Episode 1
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958. Braithwaite is seconded to the London County Council as a child welfare officer, charged with cases involving 'his people'.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant - Episode 2
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958. Braithwaite struggles to place Roddy, a boy of mixed race whose father is Mexican and whose mother is a prostitute.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant - Episode 3
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958. Braithwaite encounters racism everywhere and bristles at all reference to 'his people'. But wherever it is absent, he celebrates.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant - Episode 4
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958. Braithwaite is giving up hope of finding a family for Roddy, but nonetheless finds humanity in the oddest corners of his work.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant - Episode 5
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958. Following a lead given to him by a chance encounter on a train, Braithwaite goes beyond his remit to place Roddy with a good family.
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